George Washington Plunkitt - State Quotes

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The Raines liquor law is infamous. It takes away nearly all the profits of the saloonkeepers, and then turns in a large part of the money to the State treasury to relieve the hayseeds from taxes.

George Washington Plunkitt
The time is comin' and though I'm no youngster, I may see it, when New York City will break away from the State and become a state itself.

George Washington Plunkitt
The hayseeds think we are like the Indians to the National Government—that is, sort of wards of the State, who don't know how to look after ourselves and have to be taken care of by the Republicans of St. Lawrence, Ontario, and other backwoods counties.

George Washington Plunkitt
The boys and men don't get excited any more when they see a United States flag or hear The Star-Spangled Banner. They don't care no more for firecrackers on the Fourth of July. And why should they? What is there in it for them?

George Washington Plunkitt
Say, I don't wish I was a poet, for if I was, I guess I'd be livin' in a garret on no dollars a week instead of runnin' a great contractin' and transportation business which is doin' pretty well, thank you; but, honest, now, the notion takes me sometimes to yell poetry of the red-hot-hail-glorious-land kind when I think of New York City as a state by itself.

George Washington Plunkitt
The politicians who make a lastin' success in politics are the men who are always loyal to their friends, even up to the gate of State prison, if necessary; men who keep their promises and never lie.

George Washington Plunkitt